Microsoft Time Zone

Hot on the heels of the new Microsoft Calculator Plus is Microsoft Time Zone. This tiny applet sits in your system tray and provides almost instant access to the time in different times zones (in case you could not guess from its name) around the globe. This will be a boon for journalists like myself who don’t have a bank of clocks on the wall set to each of the major business zones and labeled Los Angeles, New York, Cambridge, Paris, Moscow, and Tokyo.

It will now be a simple click to figure out at what time here in Cambridge I should set an advance post if it has a news office embargo given in US Mountain Time, or Tokyo time or similar. That is not such an issue on ScienceText, but Sciencebase and SciScoop will both benefit.

You will need to have a genuine copy of Windows installed to get past the M$ security, but that shouldn’t be a problem for honest to goodness ScienceText readers, should it?

Here’s the link. Thanks once again to Amit Agarwal for bringing this applet to our attention.